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People magazine iPad delayed by photo reuse issues
Bruce Schwartzman, Photographer
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BALTIMORE | MD | | Posted: 12:05 AM on 08.21.10 |
->> It looks like the resolution of this issue could impact our industry for years to come and there are no comments?
Jack, thanks for posting ... |
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Chuck Liddy, Photographer
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Durham | NC | USA | Posted: 10:30 AM on 08.21.10 |
| ->> Wow. That is very interesting. But makes sense, I liked that analogy between the compensation film makers failed to get by not seeing the future of DVD sales. Unfortunately I became a little ill when I read this "People forked over $14 million for photos of Angelina Jolie's newborn twins in 2008". Seriously? This is proof there is something VERY wrong with our society. Maybe theres something to this paparazzi thing.... |
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Erik Markov, Photographer
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anywhere | IN | | Posted: 10:50 AM on 08.21.10 |
->> Chuck,
You're just realizing now theres something with people? I've got a little saying I've lived by for a long time-too many freaks, not enough circuses. Covers a wide range of society disfunctions.
I was hoping this would somehow affect that show "TMZ"
Sucks to be late night tv surfing and find there is nothing on but stuff like that show. |
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David Harpe, Photographer
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Denver | CO | USA | Posted: 12:31 PM on 08.21.10 |
->> This is proof there is something VERY wrong with our society.
(shrug)
If paying lots of money for photos of popular people is dysfunctional, pretty much everyone here profits from that dysfunction. We make careers out of shooting the political circus, the sports circus, the war circus, etc.
If you take the "well it doesn't cure cancer" approach to this type of thing, nothing in what we do as professionals makes much sense. Sports Illustrated sends a dozen people with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of equipment to a Super Bowl to cover a bunch of millionaires playing a game on a patch of turf. Millions of people watch it on television. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent on the ads that run during that television coverage. Is any of it going to directly solve any "big picture" problems? Probably not. But people enjoy it, and in a society, that's important.
Music really doesn't serve a tangible purpose either. However a world without music - even with famine and poverty solved - would be a pretty grey place.
The psychological and sociological balance of a society is a pretty complicated topic, and not one with an easy right-or-wrong answer. Things that don't have a practical application aren't necessarily bad - and in many cases, they are necessary for a society to survive.
And that $14m People paid for the rights to the Brangelina photos? Jolie and Pitt were the ones who received the money, and it was donated to charity.
So maybe this kind of stuff DOES cure cancer after all... |
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Chuck Liddy, Photographer
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Durham | NC | USA | Posted: 4:26 PM on 08.21.10 |
| ->> wow David, in a weird circular way that made sense.....8) |
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Steven Mullensky, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Port Townsend | WA. | USA | Posted: 8:00 PM on 08.21.10 |
->> OMG! A mea culpa.
That was a good exchange of viewpoints. |
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